http://www.udacity.com/
Think I'm going to take it just for the kicks.
Interesting. Just signed up.
QuoteWe'll teach you enough about computer science that you can build a web search engine like Google or Yahoo
If you build a search engine like Yahoo do you get the last 3 weeks off?
I signed up, could be good. In fact probably a pre-requisite to anyone actually doing SEO.
Tried to build one years back with php, was quite hard. I hope they do stuff on compression of the data.
Thanks for posting that, I am learning everything I can at the moment and there is some stuff on the syllabus that is exactly what I need for an upcoming project.
I'm In!
I'm banning all your crawlers. ;D
>Tried to build one years back
I've built a few before. One was written in perl and was designed to crawl one's bookmarks and build a searchable database of the results. The earch mechenism wasn't that sophisticated say for multi-word strings, but it worked. I parsed all the words and stacked them according to kw density. The other SE I built was from a crawl of DMOZ. That one was based on some really nice open source software out of japan (http://fallabs.com/). Once the index was built it was quite speedy with a million+ URL index on a very under powered PC.
Very Very Very interesting...When does it start?
-Heather
Inneresting. I signed up as well.
I note that 2 weeks are devoted to links in one way or another, and none specifically to content.
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Anyone looked at this yet?
Python, never used that.
Bugger, the emails got caught in spam. I am going to get started later.
did anyone follow up with this?
I was on holiday when it started, and never got going.
I did the first one, it was really good, then other stuff took over.